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[L]iberalism has been, in the last four centuries, the outstanding doctrine of Western Civilisation.

— Harold Laski The Rise of European Liberalism: An Essay in Interpretation [1936 (1962)

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Who does not know Tocqueville cannot understand liberalism. A case of unanswerable power could, I think, be made out for the view that he and Lord Acton were the essential liberals of the nineteenth century.

The effort to read the problem of India in the set terms of Marxism is rather an exercise in ingenuity than a serious intellectual contribution to socialist advance.

The German-Soviet pact was...a shameless exhibition, on Stalin's part, of complete indifference to the fate of the working-class outside the Soviet Union: and the attack on Finland, like the absorption of the Baltic Republics, was an example of strategic imperialism.

Reflections on the Revolution of Our Time (1943)

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